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Retired super
bantamweight 5'5" Theresa Arnold, the southpaw was born on September 20,
1962, and she fought professionally from 1995 to 1998. She accumulated
a professional boxing record of 15-1-1 (4KO). At the time of her time
in the ring she was a native of Boise, Idaho. (The following info is
from Dee Williams original bio that was also added to Wiki).
On November 29, 1995, she beat Carol Stinson by a decision in four rounds in
Washington, marking her professional boxing debut. On December 8, she beat
Dolores Lira, also by decision, in what marked her debut at her home state.
Nineteen days later, she beat the well known Kim Messer, also by decision.
On May 17, 1996, she got her first knockout win, when she stopped Robyn
Lopez in three rounds at Caldwell, a small Idaho town. On July 27 of that
year, she defeated Suzanne Riccio-Major by an eight round unanimous
decision, and then, five days later, she beat Sue Chase, also by decision,
but over four rounds instead.
On September 19 of that year, one day before her 34th. birthday, Arnold got
what was perhaps the strangest win of her career: fighting outside the
Northwest for the first time, she earned a disqualification win when her
opponent, Bridgett Riley, lost her contact lenses and was disqualified after
five rounds of boxing. Disappointed about the outcome of that fight, Riley
retired from boxing for some time, a fact that would later prove vital in a
rematch.
A win and a draw (tie) against Katherine Etheridge followed, before Arnold
and Riley were rematched. On May 17, 1997, exactly one year after her first
knockout win and in her second fight outside the Northwest, she got her
second knockout victory when she defeated Riley in their Indio, California
rematch, with a sisth round stoppage.
She followed that win with a first round knockout over Kim Young fourteen
days later, and another victory over Sue Chase.
On November 12, of that year, she had her first world championship try, when
she faced Para Draine for the IBA's world Bantamweight title, in Worley.
Arnold became world champion when she outpointed Draine over ten rounds,
taking a split decision victory.
On January 10, 1998, Arnold tried to unify her IBA world title with the
WIBF's vacant world Bantamweight title, but she suffered her only career
loss that night, being knocked out in seven rounds by Eva Jones, in Atlantic
City, New Jersey. This was Arnold's only Eastern coast fight.
Arnold had two more wins before deciding to retire, but they were both
significant because of different reasons: on April 1, 1998, she achieved
another first round knockout, this time over Deanna Wyman, in Worley. And on
her last fight, she defeated another well known female boxer, Sonya Emery,
on September 23, by an eight round split decision.
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